Schools in San Diego have more students taking advanced placement courses, not only in the state of California, but also in the entire United States. Comparitively,
twenty-five percent a students graduating last year, in the U.S., took and finished a minimum of one advanced placement class, while San Diego schools had
almost fifty percent of its graduating students completing a "high-stakes test". Research suggests that students who may not receive a college credit
for their participation in an advanced placement class are still better prepared for college. In addition, in the near future we will see advanced placement
courses being expanded in order to make them more available to lower income families and students who are minorities. This has been made possible due to grants
the San Diego Unified received.
Success can already be seen from the results of the past. A grant from 2006 opened the door to over three hundred
teachers being trained to teach advanced placement classes in San Diego. Futhermore, the same grant paid for
tutors who made themselves available to nearly six thousand students. The grant has seen almost a forty
percent increase in students taking advanced placement courses, who are from low income families.
The latest grant is expected to focus on six more high schools and will allow around nine hundred thousand dollars to be used each year for
the next three years.
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